Let your library speak for you
 

A lot of people are bashing the 2000's, but I ask your library to speak for itself. I looked it up and 50.037% of my 4049 songs are from the 2000s, 64 of which come from Outkast (though I'd say Arcade Fire has been my favourite act of the last decade with an average of 30 plays per song from Funeral and Neon Bible). It seems likely that judging by my list my favourite decade has been the 2000's... and that's possible, but not extremely likely.

Regardless, my question is a simple one: How much of your library is made up of songs from the 2000s? If many, which artist or band has the most songs from the decade and is this your favourite act in the last ten years?

Well, I have no idea how to figure out percentage. But a big amount of my music comes from the 00s. Animal Collective, Mice Parade, Kimya Dawson, Beck, and MF Doom all have very big showings in my library, though only Kimya Dawson and AC have exclusively released stuff in this decade. These are most certainly some of my favorites, though I don't know what my favorite act of the decade would be.

I already have my library separated into playlists, tho I never thought your playlist was the ultimate judging tool.
But here goes [excluding the previous decades, cause I have less than 10 albums in all of them]:

60s >>>> 34 Artists - 88 Albums - 1156 songs
70s >>>> 34 Artists - 98 Albums - 1048 songs
80s >>>> 19 Artists - 48 Albums - 517 songs
90s >>>> 24 Artists - 48 Albums - 768 songs
00s >>>> 41 Artists - 67 Albums - 805 songs

Sorry to disappoint you, 00s are third in my list, and only are 18,3% of my Library.

My Library has Spoken !

Good idea, but the flaw of it is a lot of my "90s" songs are from greatest hits or reissues/remastered albums. The percentage of albums of new material originally released in the 90's will have a much lower percentage.

48% or 3,285 songs

I do own the Kings of Leon's entire discography to include two live EPs (72 songs or 2%)

Almost all my stuff is from the last decade. I listen to almost all Hardstyle, Trance, and Electro. All of which are relatively new genres. I didn't know the 00s were bad

( meant to CaptainCaptain)^ I just remembered that!

241 songs (5 albums) from the 90s in my Library are actually The Beatles Anthology I - II - III, plus some other Beatles releases. Still don't influence the 00s in any way, but only shows how much I don't listen to 90s music (which I'm feeling now that it's much of a flaw)

PLUS: We all had much more songs from the previous decades, but who had any computer to save all his songs then. If I want to count the scattered CDs and K7s, I think I should add more than a thousand to my library.

The 00s are the decade we are living in, everything is easier to have if it is from this specific decade. And all artists, if known for a month or a year, are going to be heard.

It's not like I'm searching for a pop star who only got a single hit in the 80s.

newer is better?

50s - .1 gb
60s - 2 gb
70s - 3 gb
80s - 7 gb
90s - 32 gb
00s - 53 gb

Well it's bound to happen. Over half the songs from Orphans (Tom Waits) should really be spread over the 70s and 80s, but I still have them listed as 2006. There are a couple more similar instances. It's just supposed to give a rough estimate; and it certainly made me realize I need more early albums.

Here's my breakdown of decades past.

20s: 1 song - .01%
30s: 33 songs - .4%
40s: 42 songs - .6%
50s: 99 songs - 1.4%
60s: 429 songs - 6.3%
70s: 685 songs - 10.1%
80s: 358 songs - 5.2%
90s: 1,097 songs - 16.2%
00s: 3,285 songs - 48.5%

No year Posted: 771 songs - 11.3% (I wonder if there's a way of changing the year without doing it manually?)

Total # songs from 1928 - 2009: 6,765

I can't help but wonder what the one 20s song is. The earliest stuff I own is from the 40s and that's Woody Guthrie songs (unless you count my classical to modern compilation double-disc, which includes original performances done from the 20s and 30s... but all are listed as 2007). So would Kings of Leon be your favourite 2000s act?

Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain - O Brother, Where Art Thou ? Soundtrack

I started listening to Kings of Leon back in 2004 while I was stationed in England. Aha Shake Heartbreak came out over there 6 months before it was out in the States. I would say they are my favorite 00's artist. My problem is their weakest album, Only By The Night, has become their biggest hit over here. At least they're starting to get recognition in their home country.

Americans don't have the best taste. I've heard the most complimentary things about Youth & Young Manhood though.

Thanks for sharing, learns a lot.

1723 of 6828 songs are from the 00's. (25%)

Not counting "best of" albums released in the 00's, but with music from before then.

60s-33, 0.5%
70s-125, 2%
80s-192, 3.1%
90s-1331, 21.6%
00s-4471, 72.7%

Kind of shocking actually.

4473 songs from 8414 songs are from the 2000's, so 53%

Not the 2000's are my favourite decade probably, but I hardly think this is a fair comparison. Primarily due to the changing of format when it comes to music. LPs could hold ****, and as such albums were tailored around that. What was it, 40 minutes for an LP? and those were the late 80's/90's. When bands could start pumping in 80 minutes worth of albums with the advent of CDs, this mainly meant that they had more songs per album. This is somewhat offset by the fact that in ye olde days, bands released albums more regularly (ie 40 minute albums every year rather than an 80 minute album every three).

EDIT - Actually decided to check out album total. From - to 99 (Which includes reinterpretations of classical compositions) I have 419 albums. From 2000 onwards I have 420 albums. So the song total was actually accurate :o:

Wow. I was actually pretty surprised to see that over half of my collection is from this decade. I'm actually kinda' disappointed by that fact.

Roughly 34.2% of my 9728 songs are from this decade. Not too long ago it was more than half, so I'm not too disappointed. And a lot of it includes reissues and the like, so those shouldn't really count towards this decade.

When I rip a reissue or remaster to my computer, I always change the date to the original date. Who cares when it was re-released? I'm more interested in the original album's release year. And regarding greatest hits comps, the "good" ones will have individual years for each track, and not a year for the whole comp.

These are huge factors as well. If I were to give you figures based on my iTunes library, it wouldn't account for all the CDs I have on the shelf that I haven't listened to in over 5 years and therefore haven't made it to my computer. So the digital library is usually a more accurate representation of the music we've listened to in this decade and perhaps part of the late 90s for some. I eventually would like to have all of my CD collection ripped, but honestly that probably will never happen.

I'm betting at least 50% of my digital collection is from the 00s. Even if you consider physical + digital together, it's probably still close to 50%. It's just easier to discover new bands in this decade, so we acquire more, regardless of format.

How is everyone calculating these percentages?

(Songs from 2000s) divided by total number of songs in your library.

As to the rest, I will acquiesce that digital transfer has made songs from this decade easier to retrieve, but I was working under the assumption that everyone had uploaded all the CDs they own to their library. I know I have every CD I own on my iTunes library, and many that I don't own yet got my hands on one way or another (but plan to purchase).

i don't listen to any 90's music.

Sadly, I'm a lazy bum and I don't actually have much of my music tagged with the year :( **** iTunes, I need something that does it for me. I feel like a decent amount of my music is from this decade and the 90's, but it would be interesting to see how true it is. I was really surprised with how much new stuff a lot of you have. I'll spend the rest of the night trying to tag my music and get back to you on that.

Alright so here are some numbers based strictly on what's ripped/downloaded to my computer.

1960s - 1244 songs/105 albums - 4%
1970s - 2863 songs/383 albums - 10%/14%
1980s - 1972 songs/202 albums - 7%
1990s - 8208 songs/741 albums - 28%/26%
2000s - 15272 songs/1422 albums - 52%/51%

29641 songs/2802 albums

About what I expected. Even an old bastard like me has more from this decade than others! (again, not counting stuff on the shelf that's not ripped)

This isn't going to be completely accurate since a lot of my songs don't have a year attached, I'll try to get them all though. A note: I really like music from the 2000s

4997/5507 songs in my library are from the 2000s, that is 90.7%!

Wow, I feel like I need to listen to older music now.

Dude, you have more songs from the thousands than I have in total!

I just added 10 more and I'm about to rip another CD. :D

My numbers are ~ :

1960s - 10%
1970s - 25%
1980s - 20%
1990s - 25%
2000s - 25%

That's roughly it, pretty even spread actually. Looking at decimals, the 90s win over the 70s by a gnat's whisker. There's some overlap so the total is over 100. That's because of compilation albums that sometimes show up as belonging to more than one decade. There's also a fraction of music in older decades, but it's too little to carry much weight.

edit :

The reason the 60s is less I guess is because I'm mainly interested in music that happens quite late in that decade.

I was afraid you'd do some 3D visual representation xD

You mean like this?

http://ttdecadesbars.bmp

:p:

That's more my style:

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...apture-1-4.png

Ouch, cookie diagrams are mostly used by tabloid newspapers. Which is 1980s and which is 1990s there anyways? ;)

bah, just trying to put my chart down lol.

1980s >> 13% (the "1" got erased from the pic donno why)
1990s >> 18%

Looks like you were right, according to my library. Surprised me!
Black =1940-1949 (0.15%) .2Gb's, 19 songs (2 albums)
Blue = 1950-1959 (1.26%) 1.7Gb's, 265 songs (32 albums)
Green=1960-1969 (7.33%) 9.9Gb's, 1317 songs (133 albums)
Yellow=1970-1979 (14.44%) 19.5Gb's, 2349 songs (249 albums)
Orange=1980-1989 (17.41%) 23.5Gb's, 3009 songs (285 albums)
Red = 1990 -1999 (29.56%) 39.9Gb's, 5009 songs (417 albums)
Pink = 2000-2009 (29.85%) 40.3Gb's, 5026 songs (440 albums)
http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/s...ypic/graph.png

Because I have nothing better to do, I thought i would put a twist on this subject and breakdown my songs by length.

0:00 - 00:59 - 66 songs or .9%
01:00 - 01:59 - 213 or 3%
02:00 - 02:59 - 1620 or 24%
03:00 - 03:59 - 2270 or 33%
04:00 - 04:59 - 1523 or 22%
05:00 - 05:59 - 574 or 8%
06:00 - 06:59 - 176 or 2%
07:00 - 07:59 - 120 or 1%
08:00 - 08:59 - 51 or .7%
09:00 - 09:59 - 33 or .4%
10 mins or more - 38 or .5%